フマの王位授与機能は、ムガル帝国時代のインドの物語にも登場し、フマ鳥が人の頭や肩に影を落とす(あるいは降り立つ)と、王位を授与する(あるいは予言する)とされた。そのため、王のターバンを飾る羽は、フマの羽毛だと言われていた<ref name="schimmel">Schimmel, Annemarie, Attwood, Corinne, Waghmar, Burzine, The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture, Reaktion, 2004, page:30.</ref>。
スーフィーの師イナヤット・カーン<ref>5 July 1882 – 5 February 1927</ref>は、王位授与伝説に霊的な説明を加えている。「その本当の意味は、人の思考がすべての限界を超えて進化したとき、人は王となる。
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Sufi teacher [[Inayat Khan]] gives the bestowed-kingship legend a spiritual dimension: "Its true meaning is that when a person's thoughts so evolve that they break all limitation, then he becomes as a king. It is the limitation of language that it can only describe the Most High as something like a king."<ref name="Mysticism of Music"/>
The Huma bird symbolizes unreachable highness in [[Turkish folk literature]].<ref name="hbv">{{Citation |url=http://www.hbvdergisi.gazi.edu.tr/index.php/TKHBVD/article/view/572/562 |author=Erdoğan Altınkaynak |title=Yer Altı Diyarının Kartalı |publisher=Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, 26, 135 – 163 (2003) |access-date=8 March 2014 |language=tr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308163058/http://www.hbvdergisi.gazi.edu.tr/index.php/TKHBVD/article/view/572/562 |archive-date=8 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some references to the creature also appear in [[Sindhi literature]], where – as in the [[Diwan (poetry)|diwan]] tradition – the creature is portrayed as bringing great fortune. In the ''[[Zafarnama (letter)|Zafarnama]]'' of [[Guru Gobind Singh]], a letter addressed to [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] refers to the Huma bird as a "mighty and auspicious bird".